{"id":58751,"date":"2026-02-11T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58751"},"modified":"2026-02-10T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:44:08","slug":"open-thread-february-11-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/11\/open-thread-february-11-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 11 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I watched the Jim Acosta Show<\/a> on Substack. That’s right, the fascists weren’t able to end Jim Acosta as effectively as they thought they had. Joyce Vance, Glenn Kirschner, and Michael Fanone were on it too. But I’m sharing because at the end of the show he played a clip from RT\u00c9 (Ireland’s equivalent of out NPR) interviewing an Irishman who had been detained at one of the Saffron Sauron’s concentration camps ( think it was Dilley, TX, actually.) Yes, an Irishman. The Irish are pretty uniformly white, so it must have been the brogue – or possibly an opinion. Of course there’s a lot in it besides that. The concentration camp section starts at 41.06, and the actual interview with Seamus Culleton (spelling from CC) starts at 42:49 (and has CC) and lasts less than 3 minutes (and then Jim editorializes a little.)<\/p>\n

There’s nothing new here from Steve Schmid<\/a>t – except in the sense that “everything old is new again.” But then, “everything old is new again” is exactly why history is important. Steve will be very happy if y’all share this with anyone who might learn something from it.<\/p>\n

The Children of Dilley<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n